[SCCC] K1USC CQWW CW SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED ALL, LOW POWER

[Michael Tope]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Ruiz" <usctony at charter.net>

>
> In most contests, are you able to operate as part of a Multi-Op 
> Multi-Radio
> as well as an Individual Single Op.  For example, if I Operate with my 
> Club
> Station W6IER with others, can I go home and operate as myself K1USC in 
> some
> of the contests? I've seen some rules saying that the individual Ops can't
> use their call to contact the same Multi station they helped Operate.
>
> I ask this as I've volunteered to help John KQ6ES as a co-chair with the
> W6IER contest committee.  I'd like to see us get active with some
> multi-multi's for fun & to expose us new folks to contesting.  The thing 
> is
> if I do one (part of the Multi), can I also go home afterwards and make
> calls using my own sign in the same contest. Not that I'll have all that
> time & energy to do both, I'm just thinking I might want to catch some new
> ones for my own call during a contest. Any thoughts are appreciated. 73 &
> happy holidays.
>

Tony,

It is perfectly fine to operate a contest at one station (say you are 
helping
with a multi-operator effort at one station), and then go home to your
personal station and operate using a different callsign (your personal
call K1USC in this case). You could even submit a contest entry from
your personal station after helping at the multi-operator station (this is
how the Northern California Contest Club is winning the club competition
in Sweepstakes). What may be a little murky (and in fact it may
be explicity not allowed in some contests, I am just not sure) is for you
to operate as part of a multioperator team, and then go home and give
that multioperator station a contact from your personal station and only
work the multioperator station and nobody else. You'll have to look at
the fine print of the contest rules to make that determination (perhaps
others more knowledgeable about contest rules will chime in here), but
surely there is no problem if you want to go home and work other people
from your home station with your own callsign.

73, Mike W4EF.......................................